linux is running slowly

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#1

Hi,
I have tried liveCD, but open suse is running so slowly. Will it be faster when I install it? Thanks

#2

Specification of your machine? RAM? CPU?

#3

And also the Gnome version is somewhat lighter than KDE which requires a moderately modern machine. If yout tried KDE and found it slow, maybe you can try Gnome.

And over at Ubuntu’s they have a XFCE live cd which is quite light. OpenSUSE does not have a live cd for XFCE but you can select it during install.

#4

On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:36:02 +0000, aira13 wrote:

> Hi,
> I have tried liveCD, but open suse is running so slowly. Will it be
> faster when I install it? Thanks

Generally, yes, because hard drives are faster than CD/DVD drives - when
you run from a LiveCD, you’re running from the slower media.

But without knowing the specs, it’s hard to say how much of a performance
difference you’re likely to see. If you’ve got a quad-core system with 8
GB of memory, it’ll perform pretty well. If you’ve got an old Pentium II
system with 32 MB of RAM, you may not see much difference in performance
because the I/O channel is unlikely to be the bottleneck.

Jim

–
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator

#5

Or to put it short: most likely it will be faster.

#6

Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2250, 1.73 GHz 0.99 RAM

#7

I installed KDE and Gnome on the same PC and observed no difference in speed.

There is an XFCE liveCD for openSUSE-11.0.

There is also an openSUSE-11.2 live CD with Enlightenment (called SOAD - SuSE on active diet) which is significantly faster and significantly “lighter” than XFCE.
http://sda.scwlab.com/soad_linux.html

#8

Re-reading this reminded me that one can also, when installing from DVD, select a minimal X install, and then apply the LXDE pattern (via a zypper command) and use the LXDE desktop, which is signficantly faster and significantly lighter than Gnome, KDE, and XFCE and probably close to being on par with Enlightenment. SuSE - LXDE.org I do not recommend the 1 click but rather I recommend one use the zypper commands.

Of course LXDE being light weight it will NOT have all the features of Gnome and KDE.

#9

So that’s nearly 1GB RAM? Should be adequate. Are you running some kind of 3D desktop? You have to explain what slow means for you. Slow is subjective.